Improvement in corn-planters



D. KBETHLER.

Corn Planter.`

No. 105,090. Patented July 5, v1870.

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Letters Patent No. 105,090,7'dated July 5, 1870.

IMPROVEMEN'' IN CORN-PLANTERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pan o! the same.

I, DANIEL KEETHLER, of Mount Oreb, Brown county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corn-Planters, of which the following is a specification.

Nature (tml Objects of the Invention.

The iirst part of my invention relates to a seed-delivering mechanism adapted to scattering the individual grains, two, three, or more to a hill, as may be desired, without injuring or cutting the grains.

The second part of my invention consists in a inode' of supporting and protecting the hopper.

General Description 'with Rlferene to the Drmrt'ng.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing a part of the n iain frame and two suspended hoppers embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the lower part of 'my hopper, the distributer being open downward.

Figure 3 is a similar section, the distrbuter being open upward.

Figure 4 is an enlarged perspective view, of a portionof my improved slide.

Depending from the frame A are wrought-iron hangers B, one for each hopper U, which hangers serve to eifectnally support their respective hoppers, and toproteet them from being struck by external objects.

The bottom D of each hopper has a series of openings, E, each one just big enough to hold a grain of the required seed, so as to deliver' the grain in a scat tered condition iusteadof all in a single pile or heap. The seed-slide F has apertures f, which correspond, and, in one position of the slide, coincide with the openings E in the hopper-bottom.

The sides of these apertures are guarded by inclined shoulders or curbs G, whose sloping forwardA surfaces g prevent the injury of the seed by cutting or bruising the saine when the slide is in motion.

Secured within the hopper is a bar, H, having pendants h, which'serve to intercept or cutoff surplus seed and prevent its entrance into the slide.

The slide F is `operated by o, lever, I, pivoted to the bar E at t'.

J is a partition to keep the grain from interfering with the operation ofthe level'.

Glat'ms.

1. In the described combination, withv the series of pendantsh and the openings E in the hopper bottom, the oorrespondingly-pertbrated slide F, having the inclined shoulders "G, for the purposes explained.

2. Ihe described arrangement of frame A, wroughtiron'` hangers or guards B, and hoppers C.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

DANIEL KE ITHLER. Witnesses:

Gno. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. Lai-'Mn'. 

